The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-29
FLORIDA.

StarKeS new DdnK VIII open ABOUT NOV l.
There are $50 children in Starke who are
not attending school.
Starke can now boast Of a flourishing lit.
erary society with fifty members.
Palatkas hotels are doing good business
now, and the indications are good for large
patronage this winter
A buzzard with a white head and tail was
one of the novel sights seen sailing in the
air between Como and Pomony Monday.
The registration books are now open in
each precinct of Bradford county in prepa-
ration for the coming prohibition election.
Rev. J. w. Paterson and family, of
Windsor, Fla, have arrived in Starke Mr..
Paterson takes charge of the First Baptist
church.
The attendance at Orange College at
Starke is steadily increasing. 1t is ex-
pected that at least $50 pupils will be en-
rolled by Oct. /.
John Uglow, residing one and half miles
west of Starke, brought in last Wednesday
ripe, well developed strawberry. He says
his vines are loaded with blossoms.
Como nyde shipment of lemons and
Japan pefsimmons Monday to Boston.
They were from the grove of Mr.. Ittman,
on the southern shore of Lake Como.
The Stark band, which has been practicing
every Tuesday and Friday for month, I'M
der the leadership of e. Healy, will soon
give an entertainment in full uniform.
Several parties from New York have been
prospecting with the view of erecting a saw
mill with capacity for $4,000 feet in prox-
unity to the lakes in the vicinity of Starke
The General Superintendent of the Flori-
da Railway and Navigation Company has
given notice to every station agent along
the route, of an order prohibiting the sale
of fruit upon the railway premises.
At Minis, Monday, while Charles Postell
and Robert Rushing were examining q 81
calbre pistol the weapon exploded in Rush
ing's hands, the ball entering the left eye of
Postell and passing through his brain. He
died instantly. Both men are colored and
worked for T. Jones.
1t is rumored at Sanford that the anti
Prohibitionists design testing the validity
of the law under which the election of last
Thursday was held in Orange county. The
grounds alleged are, illegal registration, in
timidation, returning unsealed ballot boxes,
improper returns, etc. The county's ma
jority for Prohibition was 300.
Industrial Cooperation is the name of a
new paper to come out soon at Tangerine,
under the editorship of j. II. Foster. man
who has been in the newspaper business
since the time he first slung ink under his
fathers charge, when editor of the DdiIu
Dispatch, of Pittsburg, Pa, his father
having established many leading papers in
that city.
AT Fort Meade B. f. Rice was probably
fatally shot Monday night by Marshal
Griffin while resisting arrest. Rice has the
reputation of being a desperate character
and endeavored to make it warm for the
officer with a clasp knife. The ball from
the Marshal's pistol struck Rice in the neck,
glancing downward and lodging in the
shoulder.
The Building Committee of the Bradford
County Board, upon Saturday last, pur-
chased for the county from G.. W. McKin-
ney the lot at Starke, opposite Mr.. Katch-
elhoffer's, upon which to build the jail The
price was S65. The Jail will be two story
brick building, 20x32. There will be six
cells, each 71Sx10, and about 10000 brick
will be required. The contract for the
brick was awarded to DIR. Gaskins. His bid
was 95 per 1000.
1t is related of young married man, of
Pensacola, who sproud in the paternity of a
bright boy of four summers, that he re-
Gently went to dinner, having, since break
fast, had the barber to clip his luxuriant
locks as close to the scalp as was possible
NiOHouJ u IuLOl. ne uOJlCeu UndU III was
with some reluctance that his boy gave him
his usual fond kiss, but the storm broke
forth when, seated at the table, his boy just
opposite him, the lad, after looking fixedly
at his father for some moments, turned to
his mother, and, in tone of the deepest
concern, asked: mamma, who is that
mangn
Mondays Pensacola Commercial: On
Friday last, one Nelson, a colored stevedore,
was refused labor by the white baylnen
and longshoremen because he was not a
member of the contracting stevedore's asso-
citation. He procured the services of gang
of colored men and prosecuted the work
without the white labor. The white men
protested, and the colored men, at a meet
ing held Friday night, resolved to refuse
Nelson any more colored labor, and Satur-
day passed without any work having been
done on board the vessel the Andrea Papa,
an Italian bark. This morning, however,
Nelson again went to work, with full gang
of colored laborers, and the white laborers
are waxing wroth at the behavior of their
colored colaborers. What course the agita-
ton, that will now surely ensue, win take,